Architectural Design Firm Challenges its People, Clients and Communities to Reduce their Carbon Footprint on April 22.
(Vocus/PRWEB ) April 2, 2008 -- This Earth Day, added than 2,500 HOK advisers on four continents are accepting challenged to "Go Barefoot" by demography a actual footfall against abbreviation their carbon footprint. The architectural architecture close is allurement its humans to adapt their transportation, biking and plan habits on April 22, to accord to abbreviation the firm’s aggregate ecology impact.
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We are application Earth Day as a agitator for authoritative simple behavioral changes that will accept a abstruse appulse on our aggregate carbon footprint After authoritative this single-day commitment, we achievement our humans are aggressive to accomplish permanent, absolute changes to their biking and plan habits. By quantifying the appulse of simple behavioral changes, we can authenticate how individuals can accord to a cogent abridgement in carbon emissions The blog will affix our humans about the apple and accredit them to allotment their ideas, adventures and successes. We achievement 'Go Barefoot Day' builds drive above the walls of HOK and inspires our audience and communities to airing alongside us HOK’s "Go Barefoot Day" action supports the firm’s charge to abate carbon emissions from its projects and convenance by 50 percent by 2010. This ambition reflects United Nations letters that admit the role barrio play in accidental to greenhouse gas emissions.
"We are application Earth Day as a agitator for authoritative simple behavioral changes that will accept a abstruse appulse on our aggregate carbon footprint," says HOK Sustainable Design Director Mary Ann Lazarus. "After authoritative this single-day commitment, we achievement our humans are aggressive to accomplish permanent, absolute changes to their biking and plan habits."
Through a alternation of online surveys, HOK advisers common are advertisement their accepted busline and appointment practices and committing to accomplish specific changes on April 22 that will abate their ecology footprint. These changes may ambit from demography accessible busline or biking to work, to eliminating cardboard usage, to abbreviation use of disposable packaging. After Earth Day, the close will admeasurement the actual aggregate appulse of the initiative.
HOK has developed a "Barefoot blog" and educational affiche to advice advisers identify, appraise and allotment abeyant opportunities for modifying their behavior above the norm. These assets cover examples of specific accomplishments and their agnate anniversary ecology impact.
"By quantifying the appulse of simple behavioral changes, we can authenticate how individuals can accord to a cogent abridgement in carbon emissions," Lazarus says. "The blog will affix our humans about the apple and accredit them to allotment their ideas, adventures and successes."
As allotment of the initiative, HOK aswell is agreeable its clients, ally and bounded communities to accompany the close in traveling barefoot for the day.
"We achievement 'Go Barefoot Day' builds drive above the walls of HOK and inspires our audience and communities to airing alongside us," Lazarus says.
For "Barefoot" ideas: http://www.hok.com/pdf/gobarefoot.pdf
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